Sequitur or non-sequitur

I don't know if it is due to any ostensible decline in educational standards over the last few decades but opportunities to feel superior and/or exasperated at the use of language or blurred thinking broadcast on the BBC come thicker and faster now than ever before and there simply isn't time to bemoan or celebrate them all as one joyously puts on one's pedantic cloak and inserts the tyrant's monocle to scrutinize them.
But this week in an interview a representative of the Olympic Games organizers- I'm sure it wasn't Lord Seb Coe, though- I heard someone explain that the reason there were so many people disappointed that they didn't get the tickets they applied for was because 'too many people had applied for the most popular events'.
Yes, but.... if they hadn't then surely those events wouldn't have been the most popular and some others would. And if everyone had applied for the Graeco-Roman Wrestling, the Cribbage and the Su Doku then it would have been the more remarkable that seats would be available on the day for the 100 metres final to see Usain Bolt inevitably take a few more fractions off his world record.
It's amazing how much people are prepared to pay to go to see these events. They should be grateful that the public are as willing as they are to pay it and be so pleased to do so at the same time. The least we can do is admire them for it rather than criticize them for applying with such dedication and in such numbers.